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In all the land our race was once excelling	A
In richer regions it e'en now possesses	B
Broad seats and fruitful but by fate's hard stresses	B
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Our	C
branch was bent and bowed to blows compelling	A
Now toward the light again it lifts aloft	D
Its top and fresh buds crown it fair and soft	E
The flowing fountain of	F
your	G
faith has laved it	H
To life's late evening thus your strength has saved it	H
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As rests the race in time of chill and rigor	C
And from the deeps that lie within its being	A
Draws to it what alone can nourish freeing	A
Its powers to full prophecy of vigor	C
So I divined the unseen stir in you	I
Of nature's might that you could not subdue	I
It was so strong from sire to son surviving	A
In mystery mute descends this power's striving	A
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Upon this poured its radiant warmth pervading	A
My mother's soul of wedded joy the glory	J
Crowns not alone your aged heads and hoary	J
But it shall death outlive in light unfading	A
And if my people ever truly prize	K
The pictured home that in my writings lies	K
Honor of love and faith serene unbroken	L
Of father mother both shall praise be spoken	L
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If men remember the Norwegian peasant	M
As from the field of toil or saga fateful	N
I conjured him to you they shall be grateful	N
Father in whom love let me find him present	M
And if the woman whom I made them view	I
In sun like splendid faith and spirit true	I
By women is approved it is the other	C
Who has their homage my sweet natured mother	C
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And now you'll rest the evening long and cheery	J
From the day's work in fair or troubled weather	C
And of the by gone time you'll talk together	C
Of many a mile you trod with footsteps weary	J
Now will as sunlight on the winter's snow	O
A warmth of thanks in through the window glow	O
Harsh memories mellow with its golden shining	A
Your life in faith complete find its refining	A
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But none gives thanks as now that son in gladness	K
For whom you lived in anxious fear unceasing	A
Since forth he flew with strength of wing increasing	A
For whom to God you prayed in joy and sadness	K
Oh know when hot my blood burned over much	P
I felt your soothing hands my forehead touch	P
And oft my heart in mute repentance bleeding	A
In thoughts of you I heard God's gentle pleading	A
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And so I pray that I may have the power	C
Since we again for life shall be united	Q
And hope 'mid mirthful mem'ries be relighted	Q
To brighten now their every evening hour	C
When children's children in their arms shall be	J
Oh let them morning in their evening see	J
So shall they gladly lay when death gives warning	A
Their gray heads down to greet the dawning morning	A

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson

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